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Chris Honnery

Chris Honnery

IMMIGRATION BARRISTER

admin@dojolegal.com.au

Tel: (+61 2) 9138 0688

EDUCATION

 

SYDNEY UNIVERSITY (1996 - 2001)

Bachelor of Law

Bachelor of Economics

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COLLEGE OF LAW, SYDNEY (2001 - 2002)

Graduate Diploma in Legal Practice

RECOGNITIONS

 

  • Australian Legal Practitioner number LPN 5513697.

  • Solicitor of the Supreme Court of NSW and Federal Courts of Australia since 2003.

  • Recognised as the Barrister of the High Court of Australia in 2011.

  • Legal Advisor to UNESCO Center.

  • Legal Advisor to the Vietnamese Farmers Association in Northern Australia.

LANGUAGES

 

  • English (Fluent).

  • Vietnamese (Fluent).

Admitted as a Barrister in NSW in 2022


Chris has broad experience in public/administrative law, judicial review, regulatory law, migration law, refugee law and human rights matters across state and international jurisdictions. Chris was a solicitor at Victoria Legal Aid and oversaw Craddock Murray Neumann’s judicial review practice representing asylum seekers on Nauru. He also worked as a lawyer at the Federal Court of Australia following stints as an in-house regulatory lawyer and in the litigation department of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 


He has acted for applicants in the Nauru Refugee Status Review Tribunal and in tenancy matters in the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal (VCAT), instructed in appeals in the Full Court of the Federal Court of Australia, assisted refugees challenge resettlement refusals in the United States, and appeared in the Federal Circuit and Family Court of Australia and the Supreme Court of Nauru, where he is admitted as a solicitor and barrister.


Additionally, Chris’ legal background comprises work in London at Hickman and Rose solicitors, as a legal researcher for academic Dr Mohammad Kakhki and in the law programme of international media law and human rights organisation Article 19. He represented his University, UTS, in the finals of the Monroe E Price Media Law Moot Court Competition at Oxford University and passed the England and Wales Bar Transfer Test.


Areas of Practice:

  • Administrative

  • Civil Litigation

  • Human Rights and Equal Opportunity

  • Media Law

  • Migration Law

  • Public Law

  • Refugee Law

  • Regulatory Prosecutions

  • Tribunal Advocacy


RECENT CASES

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